Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"It was the excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate...
As everyone agrees that more men should be encouraged to devote some of their time to exercise, and as it is seen that if equipment were provided more men would be given the advantage which they cannot now afford, and as the Athletic Association is clearly unable to make this...
Curiosity about next year's presidential nominations grows keener as time goes on, though the situation does not clear up yet. This, offers excellent opportunity for the guessers and prognosticators. The New York Herald has a despatch from Washington which says that ex-Secretary McAdoo's aspirations for the Democratic...
The Committee has announced, after conference with the Committee on Industrial Hygiene of Harvard University, that it will devote itself chiefly to investigations into the best methods for safeguarding the health of mercantile employees, the development of a system of health education for store employees, and the establishment of courses...
The new program referred to will be based on the same General Order 49, which authorized the establishment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but the War Department will make changes in the details of its operation. Not only will instruction in infantry be offered, but also colleges will be...